Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-02
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OF these are yellow meat but one should be a
| ble." log sBfot4
THE soUTH." says an Alabama paper,t 'al n
ways has a merry Christmas. We do nof
know how much our mirih is due to the fact
| that the happy darkies around us al look
cheer!uI, their ulack faces refusing 10 reveal
! any hing but good humor even when their
| fortunes are worst, and they are all out the
| heels, 20 to speak" Z
| THE prosperous condition OF our laboring
classes 10 pretty clearly demonstrated by tie
| increase of over SID. 100000 deposited in the
| Massachusetts savings banks dnriug the past
year. Of the ll5,c00 new deposits it appears
| tnat only about 1900 were of amounts over
| S5oO, showing pretty clearly the class 10 which
| the depos!tors belong.
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO Samuel Clevenger
ms wife and adopted daughter. young white
| m m ana negro, s'ar led from Arizona tO4 o
| 70 Ashlngton Territory, Clevenger had with
Inn some 5000 in money and between thirty
| ana forty mules md horace. Recently his re-
| mains were found near the Utah line. but
"here tne rest of the party is is still mystery.
ACURIoUs OFFER was made the other day
by lady who recently returned from travel
| ing In Palestine. She had brought back with
ner "a keg tuil of the wafer of the river Jor-
| dan, which she sent 10 Windsor. with note,
'nerlnR 1t for the baptism of Princess Beat
| rlce's baby. The @ Ieen at once accepted the
gIlt and sent to the donor an autograph letter
| of thanks.
JABEz BEAUMONT, OF Easttown. Pa. who
| mas just celebrated his S2d Dir h lay, thinks
| that he will never die He says tn at when he
vas young man woman offere him a
| drink, sayiny: That's likely to kill you II
| you drink 1t and recover from the effects Y u
W II never de" He drank. wac quite i'll, but
recovered. and now in hie vigorous old age is
hrmiy convinced that he VIII live forever.
YOUNG WHITE WOMAN, 20 years old, from
one OF the northern counties of Arkansas. and
whose re atives are very well do people
| believes she has been dead since last August
She tries to look dead and there are few per-
sons about The house with whom she vii |
carry on conversation, ami only at such
Times when laboring under the belief that
they ar mediums will she consent to talk.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Peoria journal
writes thst the story recently publshe IN
connection with porti alt of Lincoln, saying
hat before going to Washington Lincoln
shaved of hi beard at the request OF a lady.
Is untrue. He ga hat Lincoln before his
domination had never worn a teard, but that
the lazy suggested that r beard would i'm
prove his appearance, and SO he let it grow.
and 1t was an improvement.
MRS. LILA STEWART. a young widow Of
Quincy. H., and J. w. Miller, a wen-to-do
lumherman, of Mason, Mich, formed an en-
gaRement to marry by letter. not having seen
each other. Miller sent her $40 with which
"a 20 to Eau Claire. and she sent him a niece
OF her dress by viii h to identify her. Then
she left her two children and went to Eau
Claire. where Miller met her and where they
we're married. They will lake in Quincy on
their tour and Dick up the two child -eD.
FRED APPEL, an old man 75 years. lived for
over fifty years in st. Louis, and owned sew
eral houses. Last spring the Health Depart-
ment notified him that he must make sewer
connections on his properly. lie said that he
hNdlved fifty ye|rs without them, ami uidn't
see why ne should make them now. Afte
sending him several notices, the department
the other day ordered him TO begin work at
once. Then the old man went down cellar
and hanged himself by the neck until he was
dead.
A FEW DAYS AGO while a man in Akron
wa, driving past DR.. a. K. Foltz's rig, and
wiz just opposite, the man took his whip out
Of the socket and was aboe to strike his
h0re with it, The doc tor's horse quick as a
iush reached out and ca',>-ht the whfp in his
mouth and wrenehcd il o. OF e mans hand
and tossed 1t up in the al letting IL fall to the
ground The &C ion Of +hIs intelligent ami
NAL caused a hearty l2ugh on the part OF
those who witnessed it. The hose has been
voted an honorary member OF the Humane
Society.
UNDER the operations of the new city char
ter which goes into operation in Philadelphia
his year it is estimated that sI00. 900 more
per annum will have to be paid for the saa.
RES of city officials. The Mayor, who now
gets $1,000. is to receive $4,000 which W II
make him the highest paid chief executive Of
any city IN the country. The theory on
which the Philadelphia lawmakers appear to
have proceeded in reforming their munic pal
machinery has been 30 reduce the number of
salaTled officials and to rails The salaries of
those who are retained, in order to get the
best.
A BOSTON MINISTER, one who prcsides over
large and fl ,urishing church at the South
En1. and Lends hand" in all good enter
prises. who was to pr. a3h in Providence.
| spent the night before with friend in a viii
| lage some miles distant and walked to Provi-
dence sunday morning. On i wav, says the
| Boston Budget. feeling hungry, he etoDDed al
| house by the wayside, rang the bell, and
| asked the motherly looking woman VINO
! came to the door if he could have glass of
milk and slice of bread. Well" she
| answered, Il suppose you can: but 1t doe
! seem that a big, stro g man like YOU nigh
/ earn his living by work and not beg for II :"
/ lie has been very considerable Of tramps ever
since.
Hon. W. NJ. GIBSON, Prime Minister and
Minister OF Foreign Affairs in The Hawaiian
government, being asked about the present
| financial condition of that kin gdom, has sent
| from Honolulu the following statement: The
annual revt rue, which will he about S. 500 600
| this year. will he raised to over 81 go 60 next
! year, owing TO the amendment Of the tax and
| customs laws anu lmpfONet methods of Ia
| sessment. The present bonded indebtedness
Of The kingdom Is $l,07 COO, which VIII be in
creased by $50 .0C0 Il der the loan Just made
| making it IN all $4,000, 900. The obligations of
| the Hawaiian government to Claus Spreckles
! on Il count Of IL sneclal loan, as also his pr-
/ vate loan to the King, have been raid OF. The
sugar crop OF the island for the present year
| is estimated at over 100 90 tons. The rovaI
| palace is now lighted by electricity md
| Honolulu viii soon be lighted with electric
! lights. The King will send Minister pleni-
| potentiary to King Malletoa, of Samoa, on the
next Outgoing steamer.
AN English tendency that the Mail andEx
press says is achieving vogue in New York
| more and more every day, sis n tendency for
men and women to form perfectly proper and
platonic ftien tships, irrespective OF their do
nestle ties. Society women who are MARI ed
are now dIspo e. TO regard their lives are in
complete un ess they have secured the lrielli-
gem admiration of some Of their ma { nds
II he Is man OF a iitv, with some reputaIi n
as u speaker, writer, or. better sal. as N
statesma u, the situation ia all the more inter-
esting Then If dinner gvers want TO secure
the presence OF this lion it Is eng neered 1v
inviting the lady to whom he is deyo'ed
And it is seldom that the device fails of it,
object. An English woman who Ia NV visit
ing here said recently that IL she wanted a
prom neut member of Parliame present at
her dinners she never failed to invite tha
married lady 10 whom he was paying faithful
platonic attentions at the time. And the
same rule seems TO be now imperative here.D
ABOUT month ago an evangelist starred
in to convert the hardened sinners OF the
nrovtnea of Nav Rrnn 4Anlc tyN Atttu ct.uit